The Gull

A bird with a red beak and black feathers under its wings was placed last week in. a glass case in the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History.

In the great winds that stormed the Western coast of Europe last autumn, this bird, a black-headed European gull, four times as small as a herring gull, had been carried far out into the sea. Six weeks ago Ludlow Griscom of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and S. Gilbert Emilio of the Peabody Museum in Salem saw the black-headed gull in a flock of Bonaparte gulls flying, diving, settling on rocks in the harbor of Newburyport, Mass. They knew that black-headed gulls breed in Europe from England to Turkestan ; that in the winter, they fly as far east as Japan, as far south as Morocco, that no black-headed gull had ever before been seen in the U. S. They waded out with nets and caught the gull.

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